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[La Rochefoucauld is content to paint"}, {"id": "card_n_540aced688be", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_082: Reconciliation with our enemies is but a desire to better our condition, a we...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reconciliation with our enemies is but a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, the fear of some unlucky accident. [\"Thus terminated that famous war of the Fronde. The Duke de la Rochefou"}, {"id": "card_n_fba06ae2fcf0", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_102: The head is ever the dupe of the heart.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The head is ever the dupe of the heart. [A feeble imitation of that great thought \"All folly comes from the heart.\"--Aime Martin. 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Thus the war b"}, {"id": "card_n_9ff7e54715bd", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_449: When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradu...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear w"}, {"id": "card_n_56af95e219fe", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_440: The cause why the majority of women are so little given to friendship is, tha...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The cause why the majority of women are so little given to friendship is, that it is insipid after having felt love. [\"Those who have experienced a great passion neglect friendship, and those who have"}, {"id": "card_n_556376b8b2c9", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_426: The charm of novelty and old custom, however opposite to each other, equally ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The charm of novelty and old custom, however opposite to each other, equally blind us to the faults of our friends. [\"Two things the most opposite blind us equally, custom and novelty.\"-La Bruyere, De"}, {"id": "card_n_4caeb9be97fe", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_213: Love of glory, fear of shame, greed of fortune, the desire to make life agree...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Love of glory, fear of shame, greed of fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others are often causes of that bravery so vaunted among men. [Junius said"}, {"id": "card_n_126ec22f0b76", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_055: The hate of favourites is only a love of favour.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not"}, {"id": "card_n_ec48fb4a0412", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_271: Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason. [\"The best of life is but intoxication.\"--{Lord Byron, } Don Juan{, Canto II, stanza 179}. In the 1st Edition, 1665, the maxim finishes wi"}, {"id": "card_n_cae4f57fd1f7", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_225: What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the gi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit. [\"The first foundation of friendship is not the power of "}, {"id": "card_n_8ad177db0311", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_233: In afflictions there are various kinds of hypocrisy.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In afflictions there are various kinds of hypocrisy. In one, under the pretext of weeping for one dear to us we bemoan ourselves; we regret her good opinion of us, we deplore the loss of our comfort, "}, {"id": "card_n_5f6931f49ffb", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_382: Our actions are like the rhymed ends of blank verses (Bouts-Rimes) where to e...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Our actions are like the rhymed ends of blank verses (Bouts-Rimes) where to each one puts what construction he pleases. [The Bouts-Rimes was a literary game popular in the 17th and 18th centuries--the"}, {"id": "card_n_58600e0fe93d", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_257: Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to conceal the want of ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to conceal the want of mind. [\"Gravity is the very essence of imposture.\"--Shaftesbury, Characteristics, p. 11, vol. I. \"The very essence of gravi"}, {"id": "card_n_24df956cc976", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_405: We reach quite inexperienced the different stages of life, and often, in spit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We reach quite inexperienced the different stages of life, and often, in spite of the number of our years, we lack experience. [\"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illumin"}, {"id": "card_n_80c9bd7b82d7", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_488: The calm or disturbance of our mind does not depend so much on what we regard...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The calm or disturbance of our mind does not depend so much on what we regard as the more important things of life, as in a judicious or injudicious arrangement of the little things of daily occurrenc"}, {"id": "card_n_297c492faedd", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_054: The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to "}]}